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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Signal, 1881-07-22, Page 21 • THE HURON SIGNAL, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1881. HOT HB WAS CAUGHT. The banking house of Shsveweil Bro- then had been victimized by en exten- sive kolgsry, a, cleverly planned, and executed that, in detective circles, there was but one opinion se to ita atrthur- ship. There was but one hand skilful ough for such a piece of work—hat of Durnford Warwick, • most a000mpliah- mai, whose craft and cunning had carni him safely through a long career of rt ery in spite of the best laid schemes to trap him. On this occasion a heavy reward was offered for his ap- prehension. I had but lately been enrolled a mem- ber of the detective force, and was am- bitious of rising. Here was a golden op- portunity, golden in every sense, fur whoever caught Marwick would not only be • made man, but would put • round ium into his pocket. While others were beating the tush in different directions I resolved to go on a still hunt of my own. I had infor- mation that Marwick had a set of asso- ciates in • place about • hundred miles away, with whom, it was not unlikely, he had sought and found s hiding-plaoe. At any rate it could do no harm to make • reconnoissance in the neighborhood. I took the next train with a view to tarrying Out nip plan. Securing a seat faoorable for observation, I commenced glancing over the morning paper and my fellow -passengers. I had no particular expectation of finding any one answer- ing to Marwick's description among them—still it was well enough for one in my place to keep his eyes open. It was not long, however, till my oc- cupation was interrupted. A plain -look- ing countryman, entering from • for- ward car, asked and was accorded per- mission to share my seat. He proved one of those irrepressibly sociable fel- leather satchel. Arrest him on sight. Bersaa' I bustled out, and the very first per- son 1 encountered tallied so exactly with the description in the telegram as to leave no doubt 1 found my man. He made no attempt to flee, but ad - reflood boldly, looking me directly in the face. "You're wy prisoner !" 1 said, abrupt- ly seizing his collar. "That's what I call cheeky !" he re- plied, pulling loose, attd tackling me, adding: "I rather think you're my pris- oner 7" A vigorous scuffle ensued. For a time neither of us went further that trying to keep jou hold on the other. But my op ponept lust temper at last, and planted a blow of his right fist directly over my right eye. I "countered" on his nose. "tapping the claret" freely. Both call- ed on the bystanders for assistance; but they only formed a ring and exhorted us to "go it !" And we were "going it" lively, when a sharp voice brought us to an armis- tice. "Hello !—what's this 1" inquired a keen -eyed, jolly -faced man, in whom I recognized Captain Beakes, my chief whose name was to the telegram. "I've got him 7" I said, out of breath. "I've—I've got him "' panted my an- tagonist, quite as much blown as my- self. "Now who is that you've both got. pray (" queried the Captain. looking puzzled. "Durnford Marwick !" we shouted simultaneously. I thought the Captain would split his sides. "I have your telegram to arrest the scoundrel !" I said, not a little piqued at such levity. "I have your order to nab the villain lows who will make your acquaintance 011 sight," rejoined my adversary. in spite of you. An active renewal of hostilities was He told me his name without waiting i imminent, but the Captain stepped be - to be asked—it was Seth Wiggins, he I tween us. said—and straightway inquired what ! "Hold on, Sleuth ! Hold on Tyke !• mine might be. I didn't care to tell i he interposed. "Let me see those mes- him I was a detective Tyke, so I merely I ages - Two scraps of paper were thrust into his hand. The Captain laughed louder than ever. "So you've each been telegraphed to arrest the other 7" he said. "Who could have played you such a trick ?" Then the Captain introduced me to Dick Sleuth—with whom I had already scraped a rather'inforinal acquaintance —as a brother detective from a neigh- boring city. A fresh telegram was put into the answered: "Smith." "Du tell !" returned Mr. Wiggins, looked as touch surprised as if I said Heliogabalua. He was evidently one of those •who think it proper to receive whatever you may say with a certain polite astonishment. When Mr. Wiggins had exhausted politics and the "craps," and given me a census of the young ones, he broached the subject that was uppermost in my mind—or would have peen but for his eternal clatter. Captain'a hand. "That was a nation smart trick that "Ha !this explains it "• he exclaimed: 'ere Marwick played into the bank," he "Marwick was caught disguised as • remarked. "I know very little about it, I re- plied. "No more do I," said Mr. Wiggins; "only I hearn he done !em outer a mint o' money." "I've understood as much," I answer- ed. "I tell yeou, mister, you've got some pesky cute fellows down to Tark—rale talented chaps as a countryman like me haint no business buckin' agin. One on 'em mother day, got me to net five dol- lars I,could tell which o' three keards hed a picter onto it. He laid 'em down in a row—'twas in a place he'd invited me inter to her a social Toin and Jerry —and then turned so chin with the bar - keener while I was atudyin' which keard to pick. countryman. It was'doubtless he who sent the two telegrams. He trust have I smoked you both out on the train.- ! Dick and I shook hands, looked fool- ish and hauled off for repairs. GARFIELD MAXIMS. Callings From the Speeches of the Presi- dent. At this hour the eloquent and impres- sive sentiments of General Garfield, ga- thered from his many public speeches, will be read and remembered. They speak of the nobility of character of the man, and of his motives and ambitions. Mr. Smelly says : "There is probably no living political orator whose efforts be- fore large audiences are so effectual.- In ffectual.-In an address upon .one occasion Gen - "I've got you now thinks I, turnin' ersl Garfield said up the middle keard, which sure enough "I feel a profounder reverence for $ it had the picter ontot. I was poorty boy than a man. I never meet a ragged martin of it afore; for tie inan'd handled boy en the street without feeling that I the keardi,so awk ardly at I could see I owe him a salute, for I know not what their faces e'enanlost as easy are the Possibilities may be buttoned up under backs; but I thought I d'jest snake sure, his shabby coat." an'havin' done so, I pout the keard back'- "The privilege of being a young moan ithoutsletting' on. is a great privilege, and the privilege of "Air you ready ( sez he, turning growing up to be an independent man in round. middle life is a greater." "Hit's --hit's the middle one—I guess,' sez I apeakin' doubtful like; for I didn't want to seem too sure least he'd is yours, a part of yourself." suspicion me o' heavin' looked. "No taint,- sez he, turning it up— which 'twere as blank as that 'ere prize I drawed once inter the Gulltrap loter- ay. "How's it done !' lies I feelin' poorty streaked as he pocketed my money. "I've got a patent onto it,' sea he 'hut I wouldn't mind sellin' you a county right for another V.' "I told him i was much ohleeged, but didn't think it 'ud do for a at.iddy busi- ness in the country." 1 was glad when Mr. Wiggins gore me a gushing good -day at the nett stopping - place, and left the train. - Another hour brought us to a place where ten minutes were allowed for re- freshments. We had hardly stopped, "Whatever you win in life you must conquer by your own efforts, and then it "Growth is better than permanence, and permanent growth is better than all." "If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better ffian another, it is a brave man, a man who dares look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil. " "The student should study himself, his relation to- society, to nature, and to art, and, above all, in all, and through all these, he should study the relations of kirelf, eoeiety, nature, art and at Zia, ttie author- -. them "Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool." "Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no ideas he - when a bogy came hurrying through the hind it is simply brutality. - oar inquiring if Mr. Tyke was abroad, I '•1 would rather be defeated than ',That's my name," I answered. make capita out of my religion." "Here s a telegram for you.' 1 ''After all, territory is but the body of i tore it open, as the boy hurried into ! • nation. The people who inhabit it. the next tar as if to deliver another men- I hills and its valleys, are its soul, its api- eege. Mine was this, ' sit, its life. .. "Marwick is on the train with you, 1 "For the noblest man that lives there end '.01 get off at . He wean •, still remains a conflict " sins e% hat and gray chat, is thick set "Come down the glorious steps of our and bandy -lamed, and has a alight stop banner Every great reenrd we have In the shotddera also curies a black made has hewn vindicated with owr hlneod J and with our truth. It sweeps the ground, and it touches the stars." "It was not one moan who killed Abra- ham Linoohu ; It was the embodied spirt of treason and slavery, inspired with fearful and despairing hate, that streak him down in the moment of the nation's suprrsmest joy." "Whim two hund,ed shd fifty thous- and breve spirits peeled from the field of horror through that thin veil to the presence of God, and when at last ifs parting folds admitted the martyr -Frei - dent to the company of the dead heroes of the Republic, the nation stood so near the veil that the whispers of God were heard by the children of men. Wealds't Pay Inv Deeasataa sae Air. Bill Smedly was resting his left foot on the top of • beer keg in front Of a aa - loon in Bette City, Montana Territory, the last time 1 saw him. On his bent left knee he rested an elbow, thereby ar- ranging his arm so as to support his chin which rested on his hand. His clothes were well worn, and here and there a rent. His hair stuck out thrungh a hole in the crown of his hat, while the great toe of his tight foot peeped forth ruddy and cheerful from his boot. The whiffs of smoke, drawn from a short, black pipe, curled lazily from his bps. His eyes were half closed and drearily. His thoughts were in dreamland. Bill had experienced the ups and downs of West- ern life; had been rich attd poor by turns, and was now very poor. . He had grown philosophic, and looked at things in a way different from what he had in his youth, when life's pathway smiled to him, and seemed rose -garlanded. "Hello, Bill ! been looking for you," said the tax -collector, coming up. There was no response. He repeated: "Bill, hello !" "Well?" "Want to collect your tax." "Haint no property." "I mean your poll -tax." "Don't own no pole." "A poll -tax is a tax on yourself, jou know." "I ain't no property." "But the county court levied this tax on you." "Didn't authorize 'em to levy any tax on me." "The law does, though." "What if it does; 'apose I'm goin' ter pay for breathin' the air 7" "Still, you are one of us, you live here." • "I dmyself into the world." "Youdiexercisebring the privileges u£. a citizep; yn'tou vote." "Don't want to vote if you charge for it." "Don't you want a voice in the selec- tion of officers 7" "No; if there was no officers you wouldn't be here consumin' my time." "The schools must be supported. We must educate the children." "If you do they won't work." "There are other county expenses— paupers, and so on. If you were to die without means you would want us to bury you." "No, you needn't." "Why, you would smell bad to other people !" "I kin Stan' it if they kin." "I will levy on your property, said the officer, growing impatient; "I will hunt it up." "I'll help you; I want to see some of my property." The officer moved on rather abruptly, while Bill continued, as if muting: "Let them fellers have their way, and they'd make life a burden. Want to as- sess my existence; want to charge me for enjoyin' the bright sunshine; ask me to pay for beholdin' the beautiful land- scape; charge me for looking at the grass grow and the rose unfoldin'; charge me for watchin' the birds fly, an' one cloud chase t'other." The eyes continued to blink dreamily. The whiffs of smoke reached up in grace- ful spirals toward the blue dome. The foot -falls of the tax -collector grew ab- senter and absenter.—[New Orleans Pic- ayune. Words of ('herr. Few persons realize how much happi- ness may be promoted by a few words of cheer apoken in momenta of despondency by words of eneouragement in seasons of difficulty, by words of commendation when obstacles have been cvercome by effort and perseverance. Words fitly spoken often sink so deeply into the mind and the Mart .f the person to whom they are addreised that they rennin a fixed, precious, and often recurring memory ---a continuous sunshine lighting up, years perhaps. after the lips that have uttered them are sealed in death. A whole life hes been changed, exalted, expanded and illumined by a single exprtrann of ap- proval falling timely upon a sensitive and ambitious nature. Words of cheer art nothing to the speaker. On the con- trary, they are to Lim as well all the hear- er • source of great happiness too he hart for the mere effort of uttering them. The habit of speaking such words at appro- priate 'times ppro- priate'times is easily acquired, while at the same time it is of so much import- ance that it should M sedulously culti- vated by all easevtsy et wales. If you would have walnut timber pre- pare to buy it now. For walnut timber isaoaroe, isgrowing sower every minute, Glad there are alarming indications that it will sewn be as rare and expensive as mahogany. The shrewd lumber dealers have long been alive to this and are thiok in the lumber regions laying hands on everything in the shape of walnut that is within their reach. Several establish - have fee several years been laying 1R km and naw have great piles of the valuable timber stored away, expecting it to turn to gold on their hands. And the event will mostly likely justify their furwight. And when the walnut is all gone what are we to fall back upon l Not mahogany, for that is too expensive. The Northwestern Lumberman says : The impossibility of procuring mahog- any in desirable quantities may be bet- ter understood when it is known that it is becoming more difficult to get every year, as the logs have to be brought from further inland. Auother drawback to the business is that every vessel owner is not willing to put his vessels into the mahogany carrying b sines.. Many of the coasts of the countries whence it oumes are wanting in good harbors, and as the vessels are obliged to anchor a mile or so from shore and have the logs rafted to :them, the cyclones that sweep over that latitude are liable to destroy them. Last year we read of the destruc- tion of several vessels engaged in that trade, and as there are but comparative- ly few in it, it shows that the business is a risky one. JIIDOMENT SUMMONS. A repress or Law abeat whiten Well-N•de "'eerie knew levy U$IIe. After a debtor has refused to pay a debt the simplest way to recover seems to be suit in the Division Court. A debtor is sued in the Division Court and a judgment recovered. If he pays with- in fourteen days there is an end to it. If he does not the creditor can issue • writ of ezecutiom immediately on the close of the two weeks. But if the brit is re- turned nulla bona, the creditor can issue • judgment summons, which brings the debtor into court in a new light. The judgment summons requires the debtor to ;appear before the judge to answer interrogations as to his financial stand- ing, and why he does not pay over to the creditor what is doe to him. At this hearing, the debtor has a legal right to be heard privately before the judge, so that peculiar circumstances in his com- mercial or domestic life shallnot be given to the public. Therefore the custom is that no person is admitted to the court during the time of any one examination except the parties to the.suit. A debtor who disregards the judgment summons is lia'rle to be committed for contempt of court. In the conduct of the inquiries all sort of questions are 'asked the debtor, such as how many of a family there are, what rent he pays, what work he is en- gaged in, how much wages he gets when at work, what he thinks necessry to keep his family, and finally, how much money he can pay monthly. There are cases on record where it is known it would take about four years to square up. -- Sometimes, moved by the debtor's story, judge orders • dividend of fifty cent• a month. Another person with a family land sick wife gets off on payment of el month. In ordinary circumstances, when a man is working at a salary' of $9 a week, the contribution is e3 or $4 flea 1 month. But the average instalments are below these figures. A Ring at Sea Quelled with Arid. SAS FRANCISCO, July 8.—The ship Ann Boynton has arrived at Portland in thirty-four days from Hong Kong with 350 Chinese. On June 15 • riot broke out because the Chinese cooks favored one gang of ccxlies more than another. The parties were about equally divided, were armed with cordwood sticks, cap- stan bars and belaying pins, with which they fodght desperately up and down the deck, receiving terrible wounds about the head and body. Fearing for the safety of the ship, and finding pistol threats of no avail, Captain Nason and crew began throwing carbolic acid among the infuriated Chinese, which soon brought then to their senses. Captain Nason justifies this courke from the fact that it was impassible to quiet the terri- ble riot in midocean and save the ship and lives of himself and crew in any other way. Had he killed the ringlead- ers, the Chinese would have been en. wiped nasi aft hope of .estl.L, Narks .Trite seventy of the draggle between the two gangs of men on each side ass plainly visible all over the ship, as also, are the marks made by the carbolic acid. (St. Louis Post -Dispatch. a greyed Igerarsaan. Seen the patten'e of Job would be- come exhausted were he a preacher and endeavoring to interest his audience while they were keeping up an iueesa•nt eoeghing, making it impossible for him to be heard. Veto how vel easy can all this he avoided by simply using Dr. Lag's New Discovery for Consumption, Cough. and Colds. Trial bottles given at your drug stens. The Barrie storekeepers have agreed to clow their places of business every Wed. eeeday at one o'clock till September A Qcua OsuvaaY. —The Philadel- phia Weekly Muyuzine fur Saturday, March 3, 1798, has the following re- markable death notice:-• "At New Lon- don, Conn., Mr. John Weeks, aged 114. When 106 he married his tenth wife, who was only 16. His gray lain had fallen of, and were renewed by • dark head ot hair. A new let of teeth had made t heir appearance and he ate three pounds of pork two or three pounds of bread, and drank nearly a pint of wine • few hours before his death." It will be • terrible thing if there should turn out to be any ground for the fears expressed by an old country jour- nal that Worth, the man milliner of Paris, is assiduously endeavoring to re- vive that carbuncle on the face of civil- ization, the hoopakirt. It is said that the crinolet, an arrangement for distend- ing the backs of dresses, is gradually being incge•sed in size, and that unless steps be taken to counteract its amplifi- cation it will soon have assumed the di- mensions of a full grown hoopskirt. It is the duty of every right minded man to set his face against this innovation upon his liberties, this encroachment upon his freedom A woman in an old-fashioned hoopskirt is as terrible as an army with banners, and when she sails down street she carries everything before her, like a Dutch man-of-war. Weasaa's Tree Mead. A friend in need is a friend indeed. This none can deny, especiallyjwhen as- sistance is rendered whenoneissorely af- flicted with disease, more particularly those oomplainta and weaknesses so common to gitr female population. Every woinan should know that Electric Bitters are woman's true friend, and will positively restore her to health, even when all other remedies fail, A single trial al- ways proves our assertion. They are pleasant to the taste and only cost fifty cent. • bottle. Sold by all druggists. PAI UP. BEING now out of business on account of the Ate, it is nereasary that all debts owed me should be settled early. 1 take this oppor- tunity of Desiring all concerned to pay up at once. 1778-2m GEORGE CATTLE. LIBERAL OFFERS FOR 1881_ Two Years for the Price of one ! 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All orders to be sent to the publication office. To secure premiums apply promptly. The Leonard. Scott PLblishinQ Co., 41 RARI'LA1 ST.. NEW 10RI. FLOWERS AND PLANTS. ALEX. WATSON Florist, South street, wishes to inform the people of Ooderlch and vicinity, that he has on hand • splendid assortment of BEAUTIFUL FLOWERING PUNTS of almost every variety, and also a choice collection of BEDDING PLANTS, AND SHRUBS, and all kinds of VBt3BT&BI PL ANTB in their season. The pnbllc are cordially In- vited to examine the stock. Remember that the earliest purchasers have the beet choice. ALEX. WATSON, South St. P. S.—Also for sale, a beating apparatus, suit- able for amateurs, consisting of boiler, four - inch pipes, and expansion tank. 1784. 1881 NEW FRIIIF S. 1881 NEW V ALENCIAS, NEW LAYERS, NEW CURRANTS, S. S. ALMONDS, WALNUTS, FILBERTS, CHESSNUTS. ar LAKE SUPERIOR is WHITE FISH & HERRING). 1r' 'SALT WATER 1a;. 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